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With the Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University slated to open its Zaha Hadid-designed building at the school’s East Lansing campus on November 10, its founding donors Eli and Edythe Broad have boosted the new institution’s permanent collection with a major donation of 19 works, the Broad MSU announced today, including Roxy Paine‘s large-scale steel tree sculpture “Containment 1″ (2009), which will be the museum’s signature outdoor artwork.
The billionaire Los Angeles collector (and MSU alum) and his wife’s donated works join some 7,500 artworks in the museum’s collection, which spans antiquity to the present. The 19 donated pieces span painting, drawing, sculpture, and more, and feature three works each by Donald Baechler, Peter Halley, and Robert Longo, two each by Ross Bleckner, Jonathan Borofsky, and Sue Williams, one by each by Jonathan Lasker, Elizabeth Murray, Terry Winters, and Paine.
“This extraordinary gift helps us fill a significant gap in our collection of contemporary art, specifically 80’s and 90’s paintings. Key works by Sue Williams, Peter Halley, Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner and a host of others will greatly enhance our ability to demonstrate the progression of contemporary painting in America,” Broad MSU founding director Michael Rush said in a press release this afternoon. “We are so incredibly grateful to Eli and Edythe Broad for their unflagging commitment to this museum.”
— Benjamin Sutton
